Human resource planning has not been exempt from
this and the methods established in the 1970s and 1980s have increasingly been
criticised as being prescriptive, over centralised and lacking a flexibility in
planning for people under turbulent conditions. What then is the revised role
for human resource planning when the skills of people are even more
paramount in institutional success, lead times for internal skills development
remain lengthy and the labour market is still not as responsive as it should be in
terms of available competencies? This new role must also fit the situation in
which formalised planning groups and structures as currently operated may be
incompatible with the devolvement
managers in people matters.